Vinka's best and worst songs

But from her catalogue of nearly 50 songs, she has her favorites and those she least likes.

The Swangz Avenue songstress this week named her least favorited song as “One Bite.”

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The 2023 single, written by John Blaq was an instant hit, much to her surprise; raking in over 1.4 million views on YouTube alone.

Yet, she says, she never liked its taste, nor the lyrics.

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“My team somehow loved that song a lot, but I never got to feel it,” Vinka told Bukedde TV.

“Fans too loved it a lot, but it really disturbed me all through. I recorded it over and over again, but its taste was awful. Even some of the lyrics came off as vulgar to me.”

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On the other hand, Vinka named two of her favourite songs.

These are “Sure” which she dropped in 2019 and “Omukwano Gwo” which came out a year earlier.

Who is Vinka?

Vinka grew up in Kazo, Kawempe, at her father's place and Bweyogerere (mother’s place), where she went when she was in P.5. The parents were separated.

She went to Hormisdallen Schools (Kamwokya), Rubaga Girls’ Secondary School and Makerere University, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Tourism Administration in 2017.

In A-Level, she was an entertainment prefect, and she started dancing and singing when she was in high school

In S.6 vacation, she participated in a dancing competition called NTV Hot Steps with friends whom she joined to form a group and they won.

She later worked for Jackie Chandiru as a dancer. It’s when Chandiru started falling sick that Vinka started thinking about quitting.

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She had been performing at Buzz Events, which is owned by Swangz Avenue, and also danced for their artiste the late Sera. That's how she met Julius Kyazze. Kyazze offered her a job as an artiste manager and she took it.

She got the job while she was still at university and part-timed it with Chandiru’s until she asked her to choose between her and managing Irene Ntale. She chose to work with Ntale.

In 2015, Swangz Avenue needed a dancehall artiste and they told her to participate in scouting for one.

She had been doing jingles and voice-overs at the record label. The label produces adverts for organisations.

Then in 2016, after she was done with school, she offered herself to try and become that dancehall singer. They hit the studio, and she recorded Level, her first single.

It was followed by Overdose, Malaika, and Love Doctor.

She believes that Malaika was the song that gave her the confidence that she had finally made it as a singer.